Giancarlo Bellini Explained

Giancarlo Bellini
Fullname:Giancarlo Bellini
Birth Date:15 September 1945
Birth Place:Crosa, Italy
Currentteam:Retired
Discipline:Road
Role:Rider
Proyears1:1971 - 1973
Proyears2:1974 - 1977[1]
Proyears3:1978 - 1979
Majorwins:Grand Tours

Tour de France

Mountains classification (1976)

Giro d'Italia

1 individual stage (1978)

Giancarlo Bellini (born 15 September 1945 in Crosa) is an Italian former road bicycle racer who won the mountains classification in the 1976 Tour de France.[2] He also won a stage in the 1978 Giro d'Italia.[3]

Bellini won the first edition of the Amateur Giro d'Italia in 1970 before spending three years at in the service of Eddy Merckx.[4]

If doping controls to the standard that the sport has in 2024 existed then Bellini would've finished eighth in the 1978 1978 Giro d'Italia.[5]

Major results

Sources:[6] [7]

1970
  • 1st Overall Giro Ciclistico d'Italia
  • 1st Stage 5 (ITT)
    1972
  • 10th Overall Tour de la Nouvelle France
    1973
  • 6th Giro di Sicilia
  • 10th Giro del Veneto
    1975
  • 1st Giro di Campania
  • 1st Stage 3 (ITT) Cronostaffetta
  • 5th Giro dell'Appennino
  • 7th Overall Tour de Suisse
  • 1st Mountains classification
  • 1st Stage 6
  • 8th Overall Tour de Romandie
  • 8th GP Cannes
    1976
  • 1st Mountains classification Tour de France
  • 7th Overall Tirreno–Adriatico
  • 8th Overall Tour de Romandie
  • 1st Mountains classification
  • 1st Stage 3
    1977
  • 9th Overall Tour de Romandie
  • 1st Stage 4
  • 9th Overall Giro di Campania
  • 10th Overall Tour de Suisse
    1978
  • 1st Stage 12 Giro d'Italia
  • 1st Stage 10 Tour de Suisse

    Notes and References

    1. Web site: Bloor . Steven . Memory Lane: the Giro d'Italia through the years – in pictures . the Guardian . 20 June 2024 . 14 May 2015.
    2. Web site: Giancarlo Bellini e la maglia a pois . Ciclonews.biz . 21 June 2024 . it-IT . 14 January 2021.
    3. Web site: Giancarlo Bellini . www.procyclingstats.com . 20 June 2024.
    4. Web site: Pastonesi . Marco . "Le storie dei vincitori": Giancarlo Bellini . Federazione Ciclistica Italiana . 21 June 2024 . it . 27 March 2017.
    5. Web site: cyclisme-dopage.com - Giro d'Italia 1978 : the real numbers of doping . www.cyclisme-dopage.com . 21 June 2024 . en.
    6. Web site: Giancarlo Bellini . FirstCycling.com . 20 June 2024 . en.
    7. Web site: Threads of History - Brooklyn . Conquista Cycling Club . 21 June 2024 . en.

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